Famous People with Name Lee

Lee Louis Mazzilli            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Lee Louis Mazzilli: (born March 25, 1955, in Brooklyn, New York), is a former Major League Baseball player, coach, and manager. On December 11, 2006, he was hired as the lead studio analyst for SportsNet New York, the New York Mets' cable television network.

Lee Nailon            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Lee Nailon: is an American professional basketball player in the Russian Super League, currently with Lokomotiv Novosybirsk.After an all-conference career at Texas Christian University, Nailon was a second round (43rd overall) pick of the Charlotte Hornets in the 1999 NBA Draft. He has played for the Hornets (in separate stints for both Charlotte and New Orleans franchises in 2000-02 and 2004-05 respectively), the New York Knicks (2002-03), Atlanta Hawks (2003-04), Orlando Magic (2003-04), Cleveland Cavaliers (2003-04) and Philadelphia 76ers (2005-06). He holds NBA career averages of 8.6 points and 3.1 rebounds per game

Lee Strasberg            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Lee Strasberg: was an Academy Award nominated Austro-Hungarian-American director, actor, producer, and acting teacher. He was born Israel Strassberg in Budzanów, former Austro-Hungarian Empire (now Budaniv, Ukraine), to Ida and Baruch Meyer Strassberg. n 1931, Lee Stras

Lee J Cobb            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Lee J Cobb: was an American actor.Born Leo Jacoby to a Jewish family in New York City, Cobb studied at New York University before making his film debut in The Vanishing Shadow (1934). He joined the Manhattan-based left wing Group Theatre in 1935. He is probably best known for creating the role of Willy Loman in Arthur Miller's 1949 play Death of a Salesman under the direction of Elia Kazan. It is widely considered to be his best performance, and one of the greatest performances ever on the American stage.

Lee Philip Shafer            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Lee Philip Shafer: is an American former professional basketball player.A 6'7" forward, Shaffer starred at the University of North Carolina, where he was the ACC Men's Basketball Player of the Year in 1960. He then played three seasons (1961-1964) in the National Basketball Association as a member of the Philadelphia 76ers franchise. An NBA All-Star in 1963, Shaffer held career averages of 16.8 points per game and 6.3 rebounds per game.

Dr. Samuel ("Sammy") Lee            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Dr. Samuel ("Sammy") Lee: is the first Asian American to win an Olympic gold medal for the United States and the first man to win back-to-back gold medals in Olympic platform diving.Lee also won a bronze medal in springboard diving in the 1948 games. His accomplishments were not limited to the athletic field. Dr. Lee was a student-athlete at the University of Southern California School of Medicine, where he received his M.D. in 1947. He went on to serve in the U.S. Army Medical Corps in Korea from 1943-45, where he specialized in the diseases of the ear

Geddy Lee            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Geddy Lee: An award-winning musician, Lee's style, technique, and skill on the bass guitar have proven very influential in the rock and heavy metal genres, inspiring such players as Steve Harris of Iron Maiden, John Myung of Dream Theater, Les Claypool of Primus, and Cliff Burton of Metallica.

Nelle Harper Lee            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Nelle Harper Lee: is an American novelist known for her Pulitzer Prize-winning 1960 novel To Kill a Mockingbird, her only major work. She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom of the United States for her contribution to literature in 2007.

Stan Lee            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Stan Lee: is an American writer, editor, creator of comic book characters, and the former president and chairman of Marvel Comics.With several artist co-creators, most notably Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko, he co-created Spider-Man, the Fantastic Four, the X-Men, Iron Man, the Hulk, Thor, Daredevil, Dr. Strange, and many other characters, introducing complex, naturalistic characters and a thoroughly shared universe into superhero comic books. He subsequently led the expansion of Marvel Comics from a small division of a publishing house to a large multimedia corporation.

Li-Young Lee            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Li-Young Lee: Li-Young Lee was born in 1957 in Jakarta, Indonesia, of Chinese parents. His father, who was a personal physician to Mao Zedong while in China, relocated his family to Indonesia, where he helped found Gamaliel University. His father spent a year in an Ind